Rosberg heads Bahrain practice 2 while Force India pack up early

Nico Rosberg led second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, but the main story of the day was Force India packing up early for safety reasons.

After a team bus was caught up in a petrol bomb attack on Wednesday evening, the team has decided to leave the paddock early, in order to avoid the planned protests later on in the evening. It is expected that they will return for qualifying tomorrow, however.

Rosberg’s time of 1:32.816 was 4 tenths faster than Mark Webber, with Sebastian Vettel another 3 tenths back. Michael Schumacher had a near miss with Vettel near the end of the session at turn 10, but both cars emerged unscathed, with the Mercedes going 5th.

"We have to analyse things. In general, conditions are probably the worst they
have been here with the tyres overheating.
We learned a lot and we are looking much better than maybe we would have thought.
But we need to see where we are. We are having to make changes because out there
it's very unusual - conditions are very tough."